Re: Capacitor energy experiment

["RAUBER, JOEL" <JOEL_RAUBER@SDSTATE.EDU>]

Bob,

Does the answer to question depend upon saying the energy resides in the
fields and not the charge?

Joel R

> Ok - so far so good - you agree that the energy stored in the
> capacitor is 1/2
> CV^2. Now, since the energy resides in the field, not in the
> charges, what
> possible set of circumstances could have the energy stored in
> an identical
> capacitor with the same charge and voltage to be anything
> except 1/2 CV^2 -
> regardless of how it was charged - dissipatively or non-dissipatively?